Official figures released Thursday show Germany has become the latest country to record 100,000 deaths from COVID-19 since the pandemic began. Germany’s disease control agency said it recorded 351 additional deaths in connection with the coronavirus over the past 24 hours, taking the total toll to 100,119. In Europe, Germany is the fifth country to pass that mark, after Russia, the United Kingdom, Italy and France.

A health care worker high-fives a child who just received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children in Montreal, Canada on Wednesday, the first day that kids between 5-11 years were allowed it. Pic/AFP